Unscramble DOWLES and you have 107 words, DOWLES itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. DOWLES has 4 anagrams here, DOWELS, LOWSED, SLOWED and SOWLED, scoring 10 like DOWLES itself. Among the shorter answers, 9 reach 9 points, WELDS, DOWEL and LOWED among them. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DOWLES split into 5 with 6 letters, 19 with 5, 37 with 4, 32 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 37 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DOWLES, 8 score 8 points, the group's best. DOES, SOLD and SLOW are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of DOWLES but one, change that one, and you get:
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Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; DOWELS and SLOWED (10 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
DOWLES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOWLES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 107) | 86 | 107 | 82 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 21 of them: DOWLES, LOWSED, SOWLED, DOWLE, DOWLS, OWLED, DOWL, SOWLE, SOWL, WELS, DELOS, LEW and 9 more. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: SWOLE, EW, OLDE and EDS.
These 6 words take every letter of DOWLES plus a single extra one.